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| Biometric system made compulsory, DDOs asked to stop salaries in case of non-compliance | | Government offices to witness major reboot in 2021 | | Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 31: In a bid to ensure punctuality in the government offices across the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the Lt Governor administration has issued strict directions to all the heads of the departments, directing them to install face recognition bio-metric attendance system in all the government offices.
Sources within the dispensation told Early Times that New Year will witness a series of changes in terms of punctuality in the government offices in Jammu and Kashmir with deadline being set as January 20, 2021 for the installation of face recognition biometric system. The concerned drawing and disbursing officers have been asked not to draw salaries of their staff if they have not registered themselves in face recognition biometric system.
Due to the outbreak of COVID 19 the biometric system of attendance was kept in abeyance by the government. The order in this regard reads as follows: "With a view to ensure discipline and punctuality of government employees in offices across the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the Lieutenant Governor has observed that some objective system of attendance mechanism is put in place for making of attendance. Accordingly, it is hereby impressed upon all administrative secretaries to advise their officers/officials in the civil secretariat to mark their attendance systems. The heads of the departments/ field offices shall adhere to the above instructions and ensure installation/ operation of the face recognition biometric attendance systems."
Pertinent to mention here that the biometric attendance system as per the senior officials had instilled new wave in the work culture of the state and that the government employees no longer were able to fudge the duty hours. The survey done at that time had revealed that the revolution in the work culture was witnessed by the imposition of the governor's rule in the state and that the entire administration was on the tenterhooks to mitigate peoples' sufferings at large.
The survey that was conducted in the civil secretariat Jammu too revealed that 31.6 percent of the staff showed up before the office start time of 9 am while, 38.8 per cent of the registered employees marked their presence between 9 am and 10 am. |
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